This request is about your use of temporary accommodation which is in a local authority district other than your own for households which have been accepted as homeless.

1. How many units of temporary accommodation does the council have access to within its own district?

2. Please provide a list of the locations where you have placed households for temporary accommodation.
For each of these locations please provide the first part of the postcode of the location in which they have been placed. Ie/ for example, SE1.
a) 2018/19
b) 2019/20
c) 2020/21

3. Please say how many household you have placed in temporary accommodation in a local authority district other than your own for:
a) Less than six months
b) Six months to one year
c) One year to two years
d) Longer than two years

4. Please provide a breakdown of the ethnic backgrounds of households placed in temporary accommodation in another local authority district for each of the past three financial years:
a) 2018/19
b) 2019/20
c) 2020/21

5. How many of the households you placed in temporary accommodation in another local authority district declared the following vulnerabilities: -
a) They were fleeing domestic violence
b) They had children who were known to social services
c) They had mental health problems
d) They were a ‘young applicant’. ie. 16- to 17-year-olds and 18-to 20-year-old care leavers.

6. How much have you spend on temporary accommodation in total over the past three financial years.
a) 2018/19
b) 2019/20
c) 2020/21

7. How much have you paid in incentive payments to landlords for temporary accommodation in the past three financial years:
a) 2018/19
b) 2019/20
c) 2020/21

We have been advised by the Senior Homelessness and Housing Needs Manager, that this request would exceed the 18-hour appropriate limit. They have advised that this information is not stored in a single location and would take weeks of work. They report some of this to government, which is sent with no personal data (no addresses etc), this would then need to be matched up and cross referenced.

In this time frame they have had 701 placements into B&B alone, so including the temporary accommodation placements this will exceed over 1000 cases; for the 2018/19 data, some of this date is not stored on any system so is on individual paper applications (ethnicity data/ support needs data). Therefore Section 12 is being applied as this would exceed the appropriate limit.